by admin | Dec 8, 2014 | General news
Following our report of Saturday 6th December 2014, giving thanks to Bridgedale Outdoor Limited for the major donation of boot socks to all our operational members, today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received the following email from Chris Gordon, Product Manager...
by admin | Dec 8, 2014 | General news
Early this very cold and damp afternoon our Team Leader suffered a serious tyre puncture in his private car whilst out in the Little Hulton area. The puncture resulted in a rapid tyre deflation, pulling off the busy main road in to a side street, Garry duly got out...
by admin | Dec 8, 2014 | General news
Early this morning team member Dave Marsh was invited to give a presentation to the Missing Person Search Managers of Greater Manchester Police at their Training HQ at Sedgley Park Prestwich, Manchester. The subject matter related to the training and use of the Bolton...
by admin | Dec 8, 2014 | General news
Over the course of this previous weekend, Bolton MRT member and DVSD Search Dog Handler Dave Marsh (Who is also Secretary of NSARDA) travelled across the Irish Sea to the Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland. Along with Woodhead MRT member and SARDA England Search Dog...
by admin | Dec 7, 2014 | Donations, General news
With our last store collection day of 2014 taking place at Tesco Extra, Middlebrook yesterday, Saturday 6th December, we can inform our readers that our Support Group has raised the amazing total of £2,918.47p at seven store collection days over this last year – 2014....
by admin | Dec 7, 2014 | Donations
Commencing at 10.00hrs yesterday, Saturday 6th December 2014, and finishing at a very late 20.00hrs the same evening, our Support Group held their last organised store collection day event of 2014. The venue was the Tesco Extra Store at Middlebrook, Horwich. On the...
by admin | Dec 7, 2014 | General news
At 15.46hrs this cold wet and very damp afternoon, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by NWAS (Greater Manchester) Parkway EOC for the teams assistance. An NWAS Emergency Ambulance was reported stuck bogged down on a playing field with a casualty...
by admin | Dec 7, 2014 | Training
The whole team meets for weekly training every Wednesday evening, but occasionally ad hoc training is held at other times, often covering specific subjects or topics in greater detail. At 12.00 noon today at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ our Training Officer Alistair...
by admin | Dec 7, 2014 | General news
We recently reported within the ‘news’ pages of our website on a filming project by a local student involving our Trailing Dog Handler Steve Nelson, his usual navigator Elaine Gilliland (Both members of SARDA Wales) and Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog Boris, which...
by admin | Dec 6, 2014 | Donations
In September this year our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE became aware of a very kind and generous supportive offer that Bridgedale Outdoor Limited were making to mountain rescue, and he applied to Bridgedale to enquire as to Bolton Mountain Rescue Team benefitting from...
